Re: The Mad Scientists Club- formerly Re: [FWD] Whoops! Wrong stealth pic in previous post!

From: Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker (zili_at_home) ((zili_at_home))
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:04:55 +0200

Am Mon, 02 Aug 2004 03:25:04 -0500 schrieb "Pat Flannery":

>We had a case in Jamestown about 1960 where a full acetylene tank
>slipped of a welding gas truck on main street, sheared it's top off on
>impact with the street, and ended up going a couple of city blocks at
>very high velocity as the gas escaped until it finally ending up going
>through the front window of a diner, much to the surprise of the
>noontime patrons. Luckily no one was injured or killed IIRC

... and an Acetylene bottle does not have much pressure at all -
compared to Oxygen, Hydrogen or many other gas pressure bottles,
because Acetylene has to be solved in a carrier medium - it is simply
'a bit' unstable under much higher pressures than 20 bar or so (the
"real" bomby gas bottles have around 200 bar) ...

cu, ZiLi aka HKZL (Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker) 

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